News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27


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us it easy2" eagerly questioned Mabel.
Well, yes--after you have once
learned the trade"
"Oh, it's something that I've got to
learn, thenl" hasitated Mrs. Verinder.
Exactly! It's something that you've
go t. learn"
'And how much can earn by it?''
"WeI, let me see, thoughtfully re-
marked Miss Crutchett 81 should
think you might make as much as twenty
five dollars month. Perhaps more"
''And be at home all the time2 No
car fare, no perpetual new boots and
gloves, no lunches to buy?"
Even So" b AIMED Miss Crutchett.
Mabel flung her book into the air and
deftly caught it again, with little cry
of delight.
"Tell me what it is" she coaxed
Don't, for PHYS sake, keep me wait
ing"
Miss Crutchett sat calmly down, united
her bonnet strings, took off her gloves
and rolled them neatly up each within
the other, then she gave her spectacles an
extra polish and took two fat little vol
umcs out OF her pocket.
''Here are your textbooks" said she.
"Master the contents of these, and your
trade is leaIned!n
Mabel made a feverish snatch at the
books. One was "a Complete House
Book" the other was ''The Manual of
Cookery"
Her countenance fell.
"Miss Crutchett," she cried, ''you are
making game of me-"
"Not in the least" said Miss Crutch-
EFT. Il mean every word that l say,
and l am ready to prove it. There is no
way in which a wife can help her hus-
band so satisfactorily and thoroughly as
in the details of home life. Take my
advice, Mabel Go down stairs and dis
charge that inefficient, careless servant
of yours, who is sinfullv spelling good
food, and feeding a swarm of idle beg
gaIs at Your back door, while you are
ordering expensive meals from the
nearest restaurant There isn't a man
living whose income could stand the per-
petual drain of wasteful servants and a
neglectful wife,"
"Neglectfuln' cried Mabel, with a red
bar rising to her forehead.
"Ask yourself, my dear, if l haven't
used the right word" composedly re
torted Miss Crutchett. ''And here you
are, pining to go out into the world and
earn money to help your husband, when
you could help him a thousand times
more womanly and efficiently by making
the most of the money that he earns, and |
by surrounding him with all the best |
and sweetest influences of home. |
Now, my dear, | can read what is work |
ing on your heart. | know perfectly |
well that you are wondering why the
little old maid doesn't mind
her own business"
mo, am not" truthfully cried out
Mabel.
but think you are sensible enough"
vent on Miss Crutchett, ''to perceive the
ruth of what have been saying have
,een looking around your kitchen, and
citing down in my memorandum book a
ew facts and figures. Discharge your
seless and extravaganza maid. Save, to
egin with, the fourteen dollars month
Ihich represent her wages; save the
welve dollars which represent her board;
ave the not-to-be-expressed sum of her
taste, her breakage, her carelessness, her
ntidiness. Typhoid fever and diph-
IBERIA rise out of just such unclcanly
orners as l find in your kitchen and pam
". Purify the place at once; AVOID doc
ors' bills; shut the door on druggists.
housekeeping can be made one of the
ne arts; it should be so. What you save
on earn. And in addition to all this,
our husbands house is made beautiful
nd home-like. Now, my dear, l don't
now much about caree,s, but in my (
yes no career could be more attractive I
lore necessary, in fact, than this. Will I
on give 1t a trial, Mabel?" ;
eyes, said Mabel, in a low voice, II
I'LL give it a trial II don't know how
!; is, but never thought of all these
Kings before, Miss Crutchett."
"There must be beginning to every
hing, my DEAR" said the old lady, gently
troking the sunny braids of Mabel's
head; land you are as
et but a novice in lies journey"
Mabel Ferinder thought it all over
riend's advice, and Mt the end of the
rst month, she added up the debit and
redit accounts of the household.
Victory D." she cried. II have
armed, or saved-or both-forty dollars
his month by doing my own housekeep-
ny. "Pve had everything in exquisite
.der, and the same supplies go twice as
ar as they did in Chr.stine's time. And,
h, have enjoyed it so much ! What
% care for typewriting and legal copy
ng, and authorship, and decorative art {
We found a career that is worth dozeL
f them"
And really" said Charley, "do 20.
now May is the jolliest little house
eeper gong? And my Aunt Selma says
does her good to see her beating eggs
nd sugar, aad counting the spoons and
apkin rings"
Mabel smiled and colored. She would
ot have owned it for the world, but the
pprobation of Charley's Aunt Selma
ignitied great deal to her. Saturday
Night.